The Kington Times - November 1917
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Kington Times 24th November 1917 - Page 1
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| Date | 24/11/1917 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 24th November 1917 |
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People less than a at know it none other e Word - made n him King ith a crown be torn and Christ - spirit ld salvation . al procession Town Hall . ownsmen the e Volunteers apport . at Catshill , week . Dr. as for some tenens with and Haw- Green , was ad , Catsh 11 , , Mr. J. T. mounting the d , and both unconscious , the skull Hayes re ident , wher Raines wa injury . Flint wa vas a major rps , and in a good deal nce residing nted medical 8 . roprietor , by 7 27 , Draper THE NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE ADVERTISER AND THE KINGTON TIMES VOL . XI . NO . 583 . SALES BY AUCTION . Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper for transmission in the United Kingdom SALES BY AUCTION . By Messrs . EDWARDS , RUSSELL and By Messrs . KNIGHT , FRANK & RUTLEY BALDWIN . LEOMINSTER HORSE REPOSITORY . NEXT SALE HEAVY and LIGHT HORSES , at Leominster , on Friday , January 25th , 1918 , Entries Close Wednesday , Jan. 16th . Early entries solicited . " Note . - All Farmer entering orses must get a Permit to Sell from their respective County Agricultural Executive Committee . Auctioneers ' Offices , Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . LEOMINSTER STOCK MARKET . TUESDAY , DECEMBER 4th , 1917 . FAT AT Cattle and Sheep , 10.30 a.m .; Calves , 11.30 ; Store Cattle and Pigs , 11.45 . Entries kindly solicited . EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN . Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . THE PRIORY , CLIFFORD , Three miles from Hay and One mile from Clifford Railway Station . EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN have received instructions from the Rev. G. Lee Spencer ( who is leaving the district ) , to Sell by Auction , without reserve , on THURSDAY , FRIDAY and SATURDAY , NOVEMBER , 22nd , 23rd and 24th , 1917 , the valuable Household Furniture and Effects , Estate Requisites , Garden Tools and Acces- sories , Carriages , Pony , Sporting Articles ( in- cluding an excellent double - barrel 12 - bore Gun ) , in all , over 1,000 lots . Sale at 11 o'clock prompt each day . Catalogues may be had of the AUCTIONEERS , Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . By Mr. R. H. GEORCE , R. H. GEORGE , Auctioneer , Valuer , Land Agent , and Surveyor , PROPERTY and TIMBER SPECIALIST , MORTGAGE BROKER , VALUER and ARBI- TRATOR under the Agricultural Holdings Act , 1908. REPORTS , RECORDS and SUR- VEYS carefully and personally attended to . HOTEL and PUBLIC HOUSE VALUER . VALUATIONS for ESTATE DUTY , MORT- GAGE , ASSESSMENT APPEALS , & c . PERIODICAL SALES of PROPERTIES . Promp settlements in all cases . ESTABLISHMENT 1886 . Offices- Groftmead , Kingsland , Herefordshire . Leominster Office Corn Square . By Messrs . E. HAMMOND & SON . Auctioneers , Valuers , House ; Estate , and Insurance Agents , Conduct all classes of SALES BY AUCTION VALUATIONS FOR PROBATE , Etc. , RENTS and BOOK DEBTS COLLECTED . Personal Attention , Prompt Settlements : CORN GROWING & GRAZING LAND . COLD WESTON COURT , Shropshire , and TOTHILL FARM , Herefordshire , two valuable Farms of 385 and 163 acres respec- tively ; also 12 acres of PASTURE LAND will be offered by Auction , at the Royal Oak Hotel , Leominster , SATURDAY , THE FARMERS ' TASK FOR 1918 . FIVE ACRES OF PLOUGHING FOR EVERY FARM . NOV . 24 , 1917 . ECONOMY IN STOCK FEEDING . have The Food Production Department recently issued two very useful leaflets on the One relates to Mr. R. E. Prothero , President of the Board economical feeding of stock . horses . In this leaflet ( Food Production of Agriculture , and Sir Arthur Lee , Director- Leaflet No. 17 ) the case of the working horse Gecular food Production , have issued circular letter to County Agricultural Execu - engaged on farm or other work , receives special attenion . It is pointed out that au tive Committees dealing with the programme the present juncture it is urgently necessary for the harvest of 1918. Although primarily that the consumption of oats by horses shall intended to impress upon Committees the be reduced ; and further , that other materials , magnitude of the task which lies before the such as maize , beans , and peas ( which can British farmer this letter covers certain points serve for direct human consumption ) shall be On FRIDAY , DECEMBER 14th , 1917 , that have been raised in the Press and on the drawn upon as little as possible . Much may in separate lots . platform and are of wide general interest . be done to keep their consumption within very AUCTIONEERS : KNIGHT , FRANK & RUT - If we are to secure food for the people of moderate limits , if full use is made of the this country , " says the circular , " greater and various alternative feeding stuffs , that have LEY , 20 , Hanover Square , W.1 . more prolonged efforts are required . A new been found by experience to be safe and satis- danger has slowly risen into prominence , and , factory for horse feeding . These alternatives unless it is arrested , it may develop with fatal are more numerous than is commonly supposed rapidity . Under the pressure of war , Europe and include wheat bran , pollards , middlings , is fast declining in productive power . In dried brewers grains , malt culms , maize , other countries on which we rely for food , gluten feed , linseed , edit , linseed cake Han - power is toe reduced to enable them to and meal , palm kernel cake and meal , coc increase production so as to make good the nut cake , gibund nut cake , rice meal , dried deficiency . Whether the submarine , menace yeast and molasses . Specimen rations are is overcome or not , whether peace is won or given in the leaflet . The other leaflet ( Food war prolonged , makes little difference . We Production Leaflet No. 19 ) is on Pig Feeding are threatened with a shortage of food and is prefaced by concise information as to throughout the world , and not in 1918 only , the selection of the pig , housing , bedding , col- but in 1919 and 1920. We can no longer ex - lection of house refuse , and general notes on pect to obtain from abroad the quantities of feeding . To - day the pig must be restricted bread and meat by which we have been accus- as far as possible to materials which cannot tomed to sustain life at home . If we do not be used for human beings , such as grass , roots , feed ourselves , no other country can or will . silage , bran , pollards , sharps , damaged grain , To what extent we shall be short of food , fish meal , dried yoast , dried grains , malt depends upon our success or failure in increas- culms , oil - cakes and meals , together with ing our home - grown supplies . waste products such as whey , food refuse of Continuing , the circular points out that " the all kinds , and surplus vegetable matter from Copies of the above danger of shortage extends beyond the period leaflets may be obtained free and post free on the garden allotment . In some respects it may be The only place where animals can be dis- greatest after peace is proclaimed . This grave application to the Secretary , Board of Agri- sected within 14 miles of Leominster . situation , therefore , insists that we should re- culture , 3 , St. James's Square , London , S.W.1 . cast the rules of good husbandry as understood by ourselves and practised by our forefathers KINGSLAND Horse Slaughtering H. J. YARD . Pritchard of the war . during the Nineteenth Century . In that period the farmer learned that what was re- quired of him was quality . Now , however , Is now living at BROOMY HILL FARM , KINGSLAND . Letters and telegrams sent to ing . to the Yard would be dealt with promptly . Horse Slaughtering , Eto The only Horse Slaughtering License in North Herefordshire is now held by H. J. Pritchard who intends to carry on this Business in a satisfactory manner to all con- cerned . All Carcases paid for in cash before removal . Letters and Telegrams : 33 , Bargates , Leo- minster , or Broomy Hill , Kingsland . SURGEON'S DARING ACT . REMARKABLE INCIDENTS ON A TORPEDOED VESSEL . onl It was announced in the " Gazette " Tuesday that the King has conferred the Albert , Medal on Surgeon Probationer R. S. S. Smith , R.N.V.R. , medical officer of one of H.M. ships which was torpedoed by an enemy submarine . deck . ant showed sign of life ; he tended to the injured in the boat so far as the circumstances allowed , until they were picked up 43 hours later . WAGES BOARDS . Authorities in various districts are adopting Free by post per 15. 8d . payable in ater : } PRICE ONE PENNY . L ADIES should make a point of seeing our new range of Dress Shoes . Shoes , as pleasing in wear as they are delightful to the eye , and all bearing the stamp of quality in material and workmanship which is a distinguishing feature of Ross footwear . FARMERS MEETINGS . Ross & Son , Ltd. , High Street , Kington . PIG CLUBS . " HUNGER - PEACE " DEMONSTRATION IN BERLIN . Amsterdam , November 20th . It is stated we are forced to consider quantity . Regard- different methods for bringing the agricultural point of view , grass land , even , good grual point representatives on the Wages Boards . is relatively of much less value than In Hants the Executive has asked the larger tillage land . An acre under wheat may yield Rural Parish Councils to call meetings of the ten times as much human food as an acre of labourers for this purpose ; the Dorset Execu- a good fattening pasture , and , on the average tive has requested the Rural District Councils of the whole country , it is estimated that to do the same . In Gloucestershire a novel With a view to explaining the international In the village where Mr. Pearce - Ellis , the tillage land is producing at least four times method has been adopted , meetings of labour- position , especially as regards food supplies to Food Production Department's Commissioner FIGHTING BETWEEN MOB AND POLICE . as much human food per acre as the land ers being convened and addressed by a labour the farming community in a simple manner , for Gloucester and Hereford lives , a pig club under grass . " was started last year by Mr. Ellis and the leader , the Chairman of the Gloucestershire meetings of farmers are being called in most Whilst in some quarters there is a tendency Farmers ' Union , and the Local Commissioner of the counties and speeches being delivered Rural League , who jointly , financed the on the frontier that rebellious scenes took venture . to them on the lines of Mr. Prothero's recent to regard the warnings of the authorities with of the Food Production Department . As a result , twice as many pigs place on Sunday in Berlin owing to the fact " hunger- address . scepticism , in other quarters there is a ten - members of the Farmers ' Union in each parish tended and are having most useful results . the villagers who ran the club for their mutual the mob and the police is believed to have been These meetings are being well at- have been kept in the village as formerly and that the police interfered with a peace " demonstration . The fighting between dency to exaggerate the seriousness of the food are tellin gthe men about the meetings . problem , although it is really rather difficult Well known local speakers , chiefly members benefit are more than satisfied with the re- of the county committees , are delivering force- sults . One of the members who bought two very fierce , with a heavy casualty list . casualy list to be thoroughly impressed with the necessity price he got for one of them paid for the dent Socialists attempted yesterday , to hold ful addresses and the farmers present appear small pigs and fattened them says that the police used firearms . A Berlin message reports that the Indepen- for immediate and effective action . There is feeding of the two ; and Mr. Pearce - Ellis bé- our armers failed to realise the extreme seri- like this would enable villagers to supply small number succeeded in holding a demon- no doubt that until lately , a large minority of lieves that the general adoption of schemes meetings in spite of the prohibition issued by In the course of the day a The educational themselves with pork at comparatively low stration in the streets in the eastern part of propaganda undertaken by the representatives cost . The capital of the club was £ 50 ; and Berlin , but they were easily dispersed by the The to do this . The problem is enormous and menacing , but it is not insoluble , if our agri- GRASS LAND PLOUGHING . culturists make up their mind determinedly that it shall be solved . task . That is made per- Duke of ousness of the situation . limited to enthusiastic promises of activity but are being interpreted in terms of ad- DEVON CREAM BAN . MADE . eal . This contention is supported by local dairy- men , but they consider that . soldiers in hos- pitals are entitled to the luxury .. the authorities . The RUN OVER BY 4 MOTOR - CARS . WOMAN KILLED NEAR BUCKINGHAM PALACES An elderly woman who was crossing in front of Buckingham Palace last Saturday at 7.25 p.m. was knocked down by a prívate motor - car and run over by one if not two When ex- motor - cabs , which failed to stop . tricated from under another cab she was un- conscious , and she has since died . She has not been identified .. Any person who has any knowledge of the incident is requested to communicate with the police at any police station . " DESTROY ! BURN ! KILL ! " NEW GERMAN HYMN OF HATE . Paris , November 16th . - The Matin publishes from its Turin correspondent the text of the new Hymn of Hate distributed among the German troops just before the offensive com- menced against Italy . Its closing verse translated into English , is as follows : - " Sons of Germany , the great hour has Neither women nor children must be spared , because the children of the vanquished may some day vanquish your country . For- ward ! Shatter ! Destroy ! Thrust ! Burn ! Kill ! Kill ! Kill ! Kill ! Kill ! " Some of the County Committees are ar- fectly plain by the official letter above referred ranging grass ploughing demonstrations . The to . It is essential , says this letter thattthe idea of these demonstrations is primarily to policy of breaking up grass land should be show , farmers who have previously been en- pressed and extended . For the harvest of gaged almost entirely in grass farming , how of the Food Production Department , the over £ 200 was spent in the year on the pur - police . 1918 2,400,000 acres of permanent and ad- to turn their grass into arable quickly and Central Chamber of Agriculture , the Farmers ' chase of feeding stuffs on members ' account . ditional temporary , grass should be broken efficiently , and incidentially to prove to the Clubs , the National Farmers ' Union and the When the enemy torpedo struck the ship to the extra area of stubbles that must be the newly trained soldier and women labour and it is good to hear that its results are not between now and the end of April next . Added farming community how excellent much of County Committees was undoubtedly needed ; Surgeon Probationer Smith was in the ward- room aft with the First Lieutenant . The ex - ploughed this year , this appears to be a heavy is in the art of ploughing , both by horse and plosion wrecked the wardroom and rendered It is not , however , impossible when tractor . they lieutenant unconscious . All other exit distributed among the farmers of the country , nggoud to the ploughing Westminster , having being blocked , Surgeon Probationer Smith In the ordinary course farmers in England of grass land in the middle fo Eaton Park , ditional grass ploughing under considerable PROPOSAL , THAT NO MORE SHOULD BET piled the wrecked furniture under the sky- and Wales plough about 8,000,000 acres in a Chester , for the growing of food stuffs , ad- difficulties in many counties . light and got the lieutenant through this on season , and the additional task would be ac- vantage was taken of the occasion to arrange In the Brigg district a large sheep farmer Visitors to Devonshire sooner or later make complished if for every four acres ordinarily a ploughing demonstration there on Monday who ha been consistently opposed to the an acquaintance with clotted cream , and many of the plough up till recently , now de- demand that it small be served at every ploughed they will undertake one acre more . last , November 12th . About 500 farmers and poli He then attended to a Petty Officer who was Further it is certain that out of the 18 , 500,000 landowners ( including the chief landlords of clares his willingness to " sell every sheep on lying on deck with a broken arm and leg , Orders , too , are often given to tradesmen to adjusted and blew up his lifebelt , and after acres of temporary and permanent grass in the Cheshire ) attended . The work done , especi . his farm and grow corn instead of roots if forward supplies two or three times a week doing the same for the lieutenant got him country , 2,400,000 acres can be found suitable ally by the women tractor drivers and the national interest requires it . " Despite when the visit has ended . ploughmen , " was very effective . the wild talk in some of the papers about the overboard , as the ship was then foundering . for arable cultivation , if sufficient energy and Torquay Food Control Committee have made The lieutenant was by then partially con- goodwill is displayed by Committees , Land- So enthusiastic were the local farmers ruthless profiteering of the farmer , this state- representations to the Ministry of Food that a scious , but was again stunned owing to an ex- owners and Farmers . about its excellence that they subscribekli a ment is typical of the spirit in which the ban should be placed on the manufacture of plosion when the vessel foundered , and when In some quarters it has been contended that liberal sum to be given as prize money . The British agriculturist is handling the present the cream , not only in Devonshire , but in crisis . it would be mistaken policy to concéntrate all women received their first training about 4 Reports from the Commissioners of Cornwall , where , it is stated , some folk have parently dead . " Surgeon Probationer Smith the available supply of labour and machinery months ago at Holmes Chapel and have since the Food Production Department , state that been known to eat cream with pilchards . Their the speech of the Premier on October 9th and been " finished off " on local farms . The Committee point out that the cream is E. Hammond & Son applical respiration until the lieuten- condition . Mr. Prothero and Sir Arthur Lee , work at Eaton Park conclusively proves that , the recent utterances of Mr. Prothero are hav- used in a very wasteful form , such as spread- however , point out that " it must be bourne in given the right sort of women , the right sort ing a very visible affect on the progress of the ing it on bread with butter . Milk mind that the object is to increase to the of tractor and plough , and suitable land , the 1918 programme , especially in the Eastern of more service in its original form or made maximum the production of food at the har- newly trained tractor ploughwomen can be of Counties and the North Midlands . into butter . vests of 1918 , 1919 , and 1920. Even if all enormous service in the breaking up of grass The Nottinghamshire Committee has dis- possible efforts were made to clean the arable land for arable . tributed as a first instalment 100 copies of a land , the maximum production of food would It will be a good thing if other large land- reprint of Mr. Prothero's speech ; and other not be obtained . The acreage now under the owners whose parks may have to be partly Committees are following suit . One farmer plough is in many cases exhausted . On the broken up to increase the food supply , emu- speaker at a meeting , embodied the food issue other hand , newly - ploughed grass land is late the Duke of Westminster in making the in a brief statesman - like sentence " It has OUR MEN IN CERMANY . cleaner than most of the existing arable land and agricultural function , and thus bringing going to win this war are the nations who will day of the first ploughing a combined social come to this , " said he ; " the nations who are it is in much higher manurial condition ; it under the notice of all whom it may concern , be able to feed their military and civilian POST CHRISTMAS PARCELS NOW . is , therefore , capable of producing more corn the value of the new sources of labour pro- populations longest . " and The Postmaster - General announces that the within the next few years . Thus the admitted The Hunts Committee has issued an efféc- German authorities have decided not to admit fact that the arable land is foul and exhausted Mided by the Government and the most effi- cient methods of grass land breaking . only confirms the policy of ploughing up grass , tive appeal to local farmers , in which the 1918 parcels for prisoners of war in Germany be- tween December 12th and 22nd next . " Your trench , programme is described as and it must be remembered that much of that facing the enemy " ! MOTOR VAN USED BY BURGLARS . In Derbyshire a speech intended for delivery to prisoners of war in NATIONAL SEED TESTING . has been reprinted and circulated ; in it he Day should , therefore , be posted without de- by Col. H. Chandos Pole - Gell to the farmers Germany or Austria - Hungary by Christmas Burglars entered the mansion , Sunbridge- lay . declares : " No time must be wasted in argu- park , near Bromley , formerly the residence of corn will be sown this season . Owing to the bad harvest much damaged In accordance with the arrangements made Sir Samuel The fear Scott , and stripped several It is known of offending one's neighbours is a very real last year parcels reaching the camps in Ger- hundredweights of copper from the tower . A In conclusion , the joint letter urges upon pensated for to some extent by increasing the fear in rural England ; and no doubt this has many before Christmas will be delivered not large number of slates and tiles were disturbed December 24th if they accounted in the past for a certain amount of on the roof , and footprints found in the Executive Committees the duty of bringing seed rate , and unfortunately there are indica- slackness on the part of District Committees Prominently marked " Weihnachts paket . " grounds point to several men having been these facts home to every land - owner and tions that many farmers are sowing corn much in pressing for better cultivation on many ARMED SENTRIES TO GUARD GERMAN afrmer in the country , and of appealing to too freely in order to allow for the poorness NO CHRISTMAS CARDS . concerned in the robbery . It is thought that them to share the national task . " If their of their seed . Apart from the fact that such local Committees seem now to realise that Prisoners of War Committee that Christmas However the farmers sitting on the The postal censor has informed the Central the copper was taken away in a motor van . Sentries with fixed bayonets were present co - operation and assistance are invited , " it free seeding does not pay , with corn its M Representatives of the late Arthur in the Prize Court on Tuesday to guard some says , " and if the land scheduled is carefully present prices , it cannot be too strongly em- when the interest of the country clashes with cards " cannot be sent to prisoners of war in German naval officer prisoners . ones personal feeling , They were selected , there should be no fear of the result . phasised that wasteful sowing is contrary to from the Libau ( better known as the Aube ) But the full accomplishment of the task de- the national interest just now , when there is country that must be placed first . which was captured after landing Casement mands all the energy and enthusiasm of the a world shortage of cereal food stuffs . Far- Committees . in Ireland . On the officer commanding a sum In many districts objections mers are urged , therefore , to procure of 152 had been found , and the Crown asked and difficulties are certain to be raised . Yet , really reliable seed grain rather than trust very substantial reasons must be given by the to increased sowings of any poorly harvested for its condemnation as prize . The Attorney - General said that when Carl occupier of grass land suitable for tillage be- grain that they may have ready to hand . It Spindler , the commanding officer of the Libau fore he is exempted from contributing his is almost impossible to estimate at all accur- was questioned , he produced £ 4 9s . 6d . , stating | share to the national task . " ESTABLISHED 1881 . Offces : Highbury , House , Leominster . CORN SQUARE , LEOMINSTER . STHIS DAY . ALE of FURNITURE and EFFECTS , E. HAMMOND & SON , Auctioneers . By Mr. JOHN NORTON .. 41 , MILL STREET , LUDLOW . R. JOHN NORTON is instructed by the RISING TIDE OF WAR SAVINGS . During the week ended Saturday , November 17th , there were 11,061 applications for 10,806,350 worth of National War Bonds , making a total to that date of 94,000 applica- tions for £ 103,089,900 . Applications for the Post Office Issue during the week ended November 10 , numbered 9,400 , the amount applied for being £ 292,000 , making a total of 50,300 applications for Of War Savings Certificates in the same 127,987,856 certificates in the hands of the public . 1,631,000 . BAYONETS IN LAW COURT . PRISONERS . Ashton , Esq . , to Sell by Auction , on WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY , DECEMBER 5th & 6th , 1917 , the costly Furnishings , including Mahogany Telescope Dining Tables , Sets of Mahogany Dining Chairs , 6ft . Spanish Mahogany Side- board , Turkey and Axminster Carpets , Set of 4 Ebonized and Gilt Heppelwhite Arm Chairs , Timepieces , Bronzes , Occasional Tables and Chairs , Electric Standard Lamps , Antique Mahogany and Oak Pillar Tables , a few choice £ 5 notes , Norwegian notes , and fragments of pieces of Antique China and Glass , Oil Paint - German notes . etc. , etc. 5 that was all that he possessed , but later he was found to be in possession of twenty - one work can be done during the months of Decem- ! ber , January and February , when operations Though this land may not yield much in 1918 it will be ready for proper cropping in 1919 and 1920 when the need will be equally great . ' BACON PRICES FIXED . BUT RETAIL PRICES WILL " PROBABLY " NOT BE HIGHER . that a poor germinating capacity can be com- nt ing the ploughing must be done ! " farms . earlier than is the interest of the Germany by the post . THE TRACTOR POSITION . PLOUGHING BY MOONLIGHT . inonth . Parcels are come . LIFE'S MOTTO . Do unto others as you would That they should do to you , You'll find it far the better plan , As life you journey through . A MAFEKING MEMORY . GENERAL BADEN POWELL TELLS A STORY OF A SUGAR HOARDER . Sir Arthur Yapp , Director of Food Economy , has received a letter from Lieut . - Gen . Sir Twill help each other through . The longest life is but a span , The least that we can do , If but a kindly word or deed , these times of stress and strain , M. BATEMAN . The weather broadly speaking has been just ately the germinating capacity of a poor seed about as bad as it could be for ploughing , sample by mere inspection . This can only and especially for tractor ploughing , over the Robert Baden Powell , in which the founder w be done by a germination test , the results of greater part of the country during the past of the Boy Scouts , after expressing regret And in which will give the farmer a fair idea as to In certain districts there was a that he could not be present at the Food Some scarce know what to do , whether the sample is fit to sow ; and , if so , slight improvement last week but generally Economy meeting at Manchester , writes : Then we must do our little bit , what reasonable addition ho should make to ings and Engravings , Easy and Single Chairs , Spindler now said that the money claimed the ground , at any rate the heavy land , is " Food economy has a peculiar fascination for And try to help them through . his sowing per acıb . Farmers who wish to Couches , Old Chippendale Wall Mirror , Wheel by him was his own personal property . so sodden that work could only be carried on me - since my experience in the South African have their samples tested should send them to Barometer in Sheraton case , Antique Brass and The Attorney - General : Who handed over to with the greatest difficulty . Where the War . other Fenders , Bedroom Appointments , Bed- you the 5 notes in Germany ? -I cannot tell I sympathise most fully in the cam- If only but a little bit , Controller which fixes the profits of all im - tablished at the Food Production Department , have done very good work ; and it is evident without exception , would play the game for That little may some pleasure give , An Order has been issued by the Food the Seed Testing Station which has been es- tractors have been able to plough at all they paign for voluntary self - rationing , and if all , With Jesus just and true , steads , Mattresses , Wardrobes , Toilet Tables , you but it was from a superior authority . and Washstands in Mahogany , Chests of " If , " said Spindler , " a German officer were porters , curers , manufacturers , and was formally opened on Wednesday by wholesalers Mr. Prothero . Samples should be enclosed in that , as weather permits , the increasing ex- their side and not for themselves , and really And help another through . Drawers , Toilet Services , Brass and Copper to give his word of honour denying that he and retailers of bacon , ham and lard . It has been necessary , in general , to raise a strong envelope and addressed to the Direc- perience of the drivers will produce a marked take to a low food ration , it can , and will , And Utensils , Kitchen Requisites , Garden Effects , had something which he in fact had , he would It is to be defeat the U - boat aims . Ladders , Wheelbarrows , Lawn Mowers , Tools , not afterwards be protected by the German first hand prices , having regard , on the one tor - General , Food Production Department , 72 , rise in the weekly averages . " Unfortunately it is not everybody who has Who ever has been true , And if we look to One above , Government , because he had been untrue to hand , to the price fixed for pork , and on the Victoria Street , London , S.W.1 . The envelope feared that some of the adverse critics of the he had tractor , in common with its more extravagant played football and so learned this maxim by He'll help us bear our trials , On view Tuesday , December 4th , from 10 to his word of honour . " other hand to the prices paid for bacon in should be marked " Seed Testing Station " 4 o'clock .. We found even in Mafeking that And guide us safely through . His lordship said that the money seized , America . Since , however , profits at all sub- in the top left - hand corner , and a fee of 3d . eulogists , do not realise how much depends on practice . whether the tractor is driven by an experi- under the voluntary system there were hoard- Catalogues from the AUCTIONEER , Imperial above £ 75 , would be condemned . Lieut . sequent stages will now be controlled , it is should accompany each sample . A leaflet on " Economy in the Use of Seed Grain " has enced ог an inexperienced man ; or howers . Spindler had withheld information , and it was probable that in many cases the retail prices been prepared and may be obtained free ( and difficult it is to turn a soldier with no know- which was suspiciously flattened out . We dug in one fellow's potato patch Chambers , Ludlow ( Tel . 70 ) , or Tenbury . his own fault if the amount the Court returned will not be higher than at present . We to him was less than he owned before . a thought to find tubers hidden in the ground , Wholesale gross profits are fixed at rates post free ) on application to the Secretary , ledge of mechanics or agriculture into This is being but we happened on a 30lb . bag of sugar varying from 3s . to 7s . a cwt . , but the small Board of Agriculture and Fisheries , 3 , St. skilled tractor ploughman . done as quickly and largely as the resources planted there . secondary wholesalor is allowed a gross profit James's Square , S.W.1 . In justice we fined him a of the authorities in man power and mechani- golden pound for every pound avoirdupois with up to a maximum of 9s . cal power will allow ; and it is encouraginig the alternative of thirty golden days in goal . to know that the process is occupying less and " If people would ration themselves it would less time with succeeding batches of men and be much more satisfactory to them , and much TR . JOHN NORTON is instructed by on Monday imposed on William Rennison , a There is an inevitable waste of more worthy of the nation . But it means time and of material and a certain amount of every soul doing so honourably , in justice to . breeder of Utility Poultry ) , to Sell by Auction , 55 and 57 , Bond - street , for the purpose of The maximum retail price of lard is 2d . a indifferent work in any rapid improvisation ; his neighbour . If some do it while others betting . As the result of a raid sums of lb. over the actual cost to the retailer . At a meeting of the Herefordshire Fruit- and the tractor scheme is no exception . How - grow fat there is bound to be injustice , ill On THURSDAY , DECEMBER 13th , 1917 , money amounting in all to £ 184 128. d . had Every retailer is required to display in his growers Association at Hereford , Mr. George ever , the outlook is undoubtedly improving ; feeling , and what is worse , more chance of the valuable stock of 200 head of PEDIGREE been found , along with a sporting paper place of sale a detailed price list of the vari- Marshall introduced the question of two or the remodelled scheme is working much more success for U - boats . " POULTRY , including celebrated strains of marked with bets , but no betting slips had ous cuts and descriptions which he is selling . ders issued by the Herefordshire War Agri- efficiently ; the right type o man alike for culture Committee demanding the ploughing supervising and ploughing is being discovered ; White Leghorns , Rhode Island Reds , White been discovered . No charge for credit , delivery , packages , or up of all strawberries planted prior to Sep- and on suitable land , under reasonable con- The For the defence Mr. Madden admitted that wrappings is allowed . Wyandottes , Indian Runner Ducks , etc. 8 Incubators his client had been previously convicted for Modern Appliances include : ( from 150 to 390 eggs ) , about 20 well - built betting purposes , but since then he had never refiners ' prices as from November 19 , whole - 1 planted with corn , roots , or potatoes , anditions , the tractor is on the average doing Portable Poultry Houses , Feeding Troughs , used the house for betting purposes , though salers prices from November 23 , and retail that no soft fruit , was to be planted until further notice . This was regarded as fatal to Foster Mothers ( 150 chick size ) by best people still came with bets and were turned prices from Monday , November 26 . the fruitgrowing industry of Herefordshire . makers , Cyphers , Portable Hovers , several away . A resolution was passed calling on the War hundred new Sitting - egg and Day - old Chick Agriculture Committee to rescind the resolu- Boxes , 2,000 yards Wire Netting ( 18 guage ) , tion in the interests of food production , as in four years , if the Order was carried out , LEDWYCHE ORCHARD . 1 miles from Little Hereford Station , G.W.R. , and 2 miles from Tenbury . £ 100 BETTING FINE . A retailer is allowed to make a gross profit of 3d . per lb. If he divides a side of bacon A fine of 100 and £ 2 costs was at Liverpool into cuts he may spread the profit over the side , more the superior aur M Norman Hunt , Esq . ( the well known , former team - owner , for keeping the premises whole rich charerior portions . Creosoted Posts and Gates , 12cwt . Poultry Chambers , Ludlow ( Tel . 70 ) , or Tenbury . JUDGES ON RATIONS . The Order fixes importers ' FRUIT GROWING . HEREFORDSHIRE INDUSTRY IN JEOPARDY . and tember 1 , 1913 , so that the land might be curers ' DISCOVERED IN KITCHEN GRATE . In his appeal at the Bristol Tribunal on Cardiff police found among the ashes in a Meat Meal , Crushed Oyster Shells , etc. , etc. Catalogues from the AUCTIONEER , Imperial Tuesday a chef said his restaurant was supply- kitchen fire grate at the house occupied by there would be no soft fruit left in the county . ing that day luncheon to the Judge of Assize , Arthur Williams , a soldier ,, and his wife , the Lord Coleridge . The Chairman : Are you bones of a child who , it is alleged had neither going to ration him ? The chef said he was , been christened nor registered . Williams and and added that , the Judge at the last Assizes his wife were arrested , brought before the sent to the restaurant to say he would not magistrates on a charge of wilful murder , and remanded , have more than the ration allowance . At Lancaster cattle market dairy cattle fetched up to £ 74 10s . , and none of the prize cattle sold under £ 66 . SUPPLY OF HORSES . So far the Food Production Department this season has supplied a total of 3,419 horses to farmers . machines . MISUSE OF EXEMPTION PAPER . The person to whom better and quicker work . A charge of misusing a certificate of ex- An interesting item comes from Shropshire , emption granted by the divisional inspector of where a representative of the Food Production mines was preferred at Doncaster on Tuesday , Department reports that he found a tractor against Samuel Smith . doing a first - rate poughing job on an old ley . the certificate had been granted , a Bentley " The crew were civilians , " he says ; " A miner named Woodfine Smith , who is a refa- father and son , the latter a youth of 17 who tive , was charged with allowing another per- has been with his father some months on this son to use his exemption paper . work and is now an expert . They were turn- The last - named defendant gave out that he ing out rather more than 5 acres per day on a had lost his certificate and obtained another , consumption of 3 gallons of fuel . " This man whereupon it was found that Samuel Smith obviously knew his job ; and he has been was using the missing exemption . recommended as a teacher of other men . By The Bench committed Samuel Smith to the way , the tractors in Shropshire last week , prison for a month , and fined Woodfine Smith £ 10 . plougher 138 acres . The Director of food Economy's appeal FOOD BLONOMY DE In 1914 the need was for MEN In 1915 for MUNITIONS In 1916 for MONEY In1917 for MEN MUNITIONS MONEY and Economy in food Arthrex R. Jaffr . |